The Neotropical social wasp Mischocyttarus 'alfkenii' Ducke (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) is a pair of ethospecies

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 446-452

  O'Connor, Timothy K ^a,c   Starr, Christopher K ^b   Cameron, Sydney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMMON ANCESTRY; ETHNOBOTANY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOMETRY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP; WING;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

HYMENOPTERA; MISCHOCYTTARUS; MISCHOCYTTARUS ALFKENII; VESPIDAE;

EID: 79959692921     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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